Only composite forms of speech can be true or false. Or having composition and structure, such as "a man argued", "the horse runs".Either simple, without composition or structure, such as "man", "horse", "fights".It then divides forms of speech as being: The text begins with an explication of what Aristotle means by " synonymous", or univocal words, what is meant by " homonymous", or equivocal words, and what is meant by " paronymous", or denominative (sometimes translated "derivative") words. Aristotle intended them to enumerate everything that can be expressed without composition or structure, thus anything that can be either the subject or the predicate of a proposition. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories (known to medieval writers as the Latin term praedicamenta). The work is brief enough to be divided, not into books as is usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen chapters. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions". The Categories ( Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition.
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